tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44852269781481877572020-06-04T20:45:53.425-07:00The Monument FellowshipThe Monument Fellowshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177035202994621287noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-379994280662254582019-11-06T06:50:00.000-08:002019-11-06T07:53:53.685-08:00What should happen to people who commit crime? The consequences affect us all.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J33SUOcFPz4/XcLsOzpkSBI/AAAAAAAAAEE/tAUrheULJhgY9FwRvGRBsVvAdOi6h0trwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Crime%2Band%2BConsequence_WEB_Singles%2B%2528002%2529_Page_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1128" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J33SUOcFPz4/XcLsOzpkSBI/AAAAAAAAAEE/tAUrheULJhgY9FwRvGRBsVvAdOi6h0trwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Crime%2Band%2BConsequence_WEB_Singles%2B%2528002%2529_Page_001.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><i>Crime &amp; Consequence - what should happen to people who commit criminal offences? launching today, is the third in a series of books, curated by Clinks and National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance on behalf of The Monument Fellowship. Anne Fox, Clinks Chief Executive Officer blogs about why it was written, what it was like to put together, and why it matters.</i><br /><br />I’m not a writer – I’ve never harboured ambitions to write. I have a postcard on my desk that I bought from Koestler Arts – it reads “I never knew I had a story in me”. I don’t – but it turns out that I can call on at least 57 people who do. My job, along with my fellow editor Alison Frater, was to sift through a treasure trove of contributions, selecting the best to produce a book and bring it to life in print: our new book Crime &amp; Consequence.<br /><br /><div><h3></h3><h3>Igniting a productive conversation on criminal justice reform</h3><br />Our intention, from the outset, was to collate something which would be accessible and relatable to the widest audience we could reach. Why? Because we want and need the widest range of people to engage with the question we posed, “what should happen to people who commit criminal offences?”.<br /><br />We want people to think about this issue, to generate the political will for progressive reforms that address the root causes of people’s contact with the criminal justice system. Our justice system needs to better support people's ability to make positive changes in their lives, not have repeated contact with the criminal justice system, and better promote public safety.<br /><br />However, the criminal justice system is a public service most people rarely give much thought to. It’s the public service perhaps that we most want to avoid, but we really should think about more. What’s it for? What should it do? What’s its purpose? What does it look like when it works best? What difference should it make to people’s lives?<br /><br />What we know from the work of the <a href="http://www.transformjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Reframing-crime-and-Justice-a-handy-guide_Transform-Justice.pdf">Reframing Crime and Justice project</a> - led by Transform Justice, with Clinks as a partner - is that “in order to effectively engage the public and ignite a more productive conversation about criminal justice reform, communicators need to adopt <a href="http://frameworksinstitute.org/assets/files/PDF/UKCJ_MM_July_2016_Final.pdf">a narrative strategy</a> that dislodges the role that punishment plays in public thinking about criminal justice".<br /><br /></div><div><h3></h3><h3>Asking the big questions</h3><div><br /></div>So, when The Monument Fellowship gathered in October 2018 to decide on our third question, our discussions led us to conclude that it was time to ask the big question: what kind of system should we have to respond to crime, or specifically, what should happen when people commit criminal offences?<br /><br />This question in many ways is at the heart of the Fellowship itself, formed as The Monument Trust was preparing to close after many years of incredible support to the criminal justice voluntary sector. The Trust has funded and built an impressive number of positive interventions and approaches for better diverting people from the criminal justice system, repairing the harms done and supporting people to leave the system and live better lives. Mark Woodruff of the Trust describes the fellowship eloquently in the book as “the collaboration, mutual inspiration and cumulative effect of seven bodies and approaches vital in our experience to making a decisive difference along the journey of people at risk of offending”.</div><div><br /><h3>A rich mix of perspectives</h3><div><br /></div>We were delighted to be able to lead the work to source and collate this year’s contributions, mainly because we are able to rely on a broad network of people and organisations who have the expertise, knowledge and experience that qualifies them to have something to say on this subject, which we feel needs to be heard. This network was made available to us through the Fellowship with its broad and extensive reach and through our own members, supporters, followers and partners. Our contributors all have different experiences of the criminal justice system and all speak from a place of knowledge from that experience, be it lived or professional.<br /><br />The job of finding content was easy – we put the question out as an open call and asked people what subject they’d write on as well as identifying thought leaders through the Fellowship’s contacts and inviting their views. We were quite taken aback by the response – almost 100 pitches in total. So when faced with so much potential content we made a decision – we wouldn’t try and overly edit the book – we wouldn’t try and speak for people or change their pieces, but instead present the different contributions in a format that would allow the reader to see clearly that there is no one answer to the question.<br /><br />There's such a range of opinions, especially when you get to the heart of exactly what should happen - what interventions, what type of sentence etc. Overall, we wanted to show that it's valuable to think about this question, and to evidence this thinking. So this book is a collection of the considered views of people who have some kind of experience of the justice system to inform public opinion and public policy about what should happen to those people in the future. We are so grateful to everyone who gave us their time and thoughts and those who helped to spread the word and support people with lived experience to have their voices heard.<br /><br />Another benefit of our network and reach collectively is that we were able to collect a variety of formats in the answers and hear from a range of voices. The volume is a collection of poems, essays and even a play – as well as some of the stunning pieces from the Koestler Arts 2019 exhibitions Another Me and A Feeling We All Share. It even ends with Prison Reading Group’s guide to exploring the issues.</div><div><br /></div><div><h3>This is only the start</h3><div><br /></div>In many ways, as I said at the launch event – the book and its question is more current and contemporary at its publication then it was at its inception. In that intervening year, this question has been asked by the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Justice and it's likely their answers will be included in the Manifesto which they’ll put to the electorate now on 12th December.<br /><br />I also said that the book is not the end of the process, it's only the start. We want people to take the book, and the podcast launching next week, and engage with the question. We invite you to consider the answers here and come up with your own. What do you think should happen to people who commit criminal offences?</div><div><br /><h3>The Fellowship</h3><div><i><i><br /></i></i></div><i>The Monument Fellowship is made up of eight organisations funded by The Monument Trust to work together to make a sustained, cumulative and transformative change to the journey of individuals through our justice system. The members of the fellowship are: The Centre for Justice Innovation, Clinks, the Diagrama Foundation UK, Khulisa UK, Koestler Arts, Lemos and Crane: The Good Prison, The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance and Restorative Solutions CIC.</i></div>Clinks and National Criminal Justice Arts Alliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929479597573634879noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-54362093780467447272019-07-29T04:12:00.000-07:002019-07-29T04:12:21.723-07:00Tuning Up 2019 Music Festival HMP Whitemoor 24th October 2019<h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oPd1T20Xo48/XT7UY8H5DCI/AAAAAAAAASA/qsVmSPai3C8SY-C2W6i723cP8pROm0pugCLcBGAs/s1600/band%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1600" height="192" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oPd1T20Xo48/XT7UY8H5DCI/AAAAAAAAASA/qsVmSPai3C8SY-C2W6i723cP8pROm0pugCLcBGAs/s320/band%2B1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></h2><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tuning Up 2019</strong><span style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px;">is a collaboration between HMP Whitemoor, Britten Sinfonia, Orchestras Live and Lemos&amp;Crane.&nbsp; Following our hugely successful</span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/home/index.php?id=241493" style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">workshops and concerts at HMP Whitemoor in June 2018</a><span style="color: yellow; font-size: 14.4px;">, we are now planning the first ever orchestral music festival for staff and residents of HMP Whitemoor as well as family and friends. During the autumn musicians from Britten Sinfonia will be working with a group of staff and residents to make a new piece inspired by 946-3, a new collaboration between two living greats of contemporary arts - the composer Steve Reich and the artist Gerhard Richter.&nbsp;</span></h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Steve Reich: the composer who redefined the very concept of rhythm – and whose vitality interrogates and transforms everything it touches. Gerhard Richter: a titan of contemporary art, a master of light capable of charging abstract forms with intense emotional power.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Together with Britten Sinfonia they’ve combined original music and digital visuals, algorithmically derived from Richter’s painting “946-3”, to create an artwork that is boundlessly more than the sum of its parts. “A stream of images, its rhythmic flow interpreted by music and, at the same time, a musical composition visualized by film images” is how Richter describes a collaboration that’s likely to be one of the most significant moments in contemporary art this year. The piece will receive its European premiere at the Barbican on October 23rd.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">The day after, October 24th, at HMP Whitemoor Britten Sinfonia players, staff, residents and family and friends will come together at a concert that will end a one-day music festival in the prison to perform the work they have created inspired by the Reich/Richter piece.</span></span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" src="https://www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/resources/lottery_Logo_Black%20RGB.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="350" /></div>Gerard Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04720533746033622367noreply@blogger.com116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-73781063578681005962019-03-03T00:47:00.003-08:002019-03-03T00:47:38.662-08:00Why Lemos&Crane thought orchestral music could make a difference for prisoners<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The arts in prison has been a longstanding commitment of the Monument Trust and the organisations in the Monument Fellowship. <i>Tuning Up</i> is an ongoing project in HMP Whitemoor with Britten Sinfonia using orchestral repertory to engage and develop prisoners' music skills and enhance their relationships and wellbeing.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The partners in <i>Tuning Up</i> were Lemos&amp;Crane, Britten Sinfonia, HMP Whitemoor and Orchestras Livee. Our hypothesis was that <i>Tuning Up</i> in all its aspects would increase interest among the participants in prison in unfamiliar musical forms from the orchestral repertory.&nbsp; The focus on orchestral repertory rather than more familiar musical forms like rap, R&amp;B or hip hop was with the objective that engagement with classical music would be unapologetically educational, stretching and aspirational. We also wanted to develop musical enthusiasm, commitment, skills and interest in future development of their musical interests and skills.&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In addition to these musical benefits, we also hoped for other personal and socially beneficial outcomes including increasing confidence and self-esteem, improved mental health and coping mechanisms for prison life during a long sentence, better communication and collaborative skills and empathy among residents and between residents and staff and a sense of achievement in their own eyes and in the eyes of family, friends, other residents and prison staff.&nbsp;&nbsp; We also hoped there would be benefits for prison life generally: more co-operative residents with new interests, better social skills, more positive relationships with staff and other residents as well as higher levels of staff motivation and engagement with creating and enhancing a more rehabilitative culture.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal">Our ambition was that the programme would also be personally and musically developmental for the musicians, enhancing their creative skills with a community and in a setting that was new for most of them. We also hoped that over the long term programmes such as this could contribute to changing public perception of offenders' skills and abilities and engender more understanding of prisons, those living in them and their lives.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">You can <b><u><a href="https://www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/home/index.php?id=241493">read the full evaluation of the first phase of <i>Tuning Up&nbsp;</i>here</a></u> </b>and see if we met our ambitions.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="448" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WMWos5VQaA8/XHuThZ4HR8I/AAAAAAAAAQ4/xu-KeANDn_cwmReVgpraZRjR7HkcXBjHgCLcBGAs/s320/thumbnail_Tuning%2BUp%2BTile.jpg" width="320" /><span id="goog_46065494"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_46065495"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><br />Gerard Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04720533746033622367noreply@blogger.com317tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-12265898109954048492019-01-21T08:48:00.000-08:002019-01-21T08:48:00.315-08:00 Contribute to the new Monument Fellowship bookClinks and the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) are curating responses to the question “What should happen to people who commit criminal offences?"<br /><br />Clinks is part of a collective of organisations, <a href="http://themonumentfellowship.blogspot.co.uk/">the Monument Fellowship</a>, each funded through the legacy grants of the Monument Trust which has now closed. In addition to each organisation doing what it is grant funded for, we work together to create a body of work over the course of six years which will provide a legacy for the criminal justice work of the Trust. We pose a question each year which we collect contributors’ answers to. Last year's book, <a href="http://justiceinnovation.org/portfolio/curing-violence/">Curing Violence</a>, was curated by Centre for Justice Innovation.<br /><br />We are now actively seeking contributions to a book allowing for differing, contrasting and contrary viewpoints. Contributors can either provide the piece themselves or be interviewed by CEO Anne Fox or a colleague from Clinks. There is no minimum word limit but the maximum is 2,000 words.<br /><br />If you would like to be considered, or nominate someone else, please send a brief description of what you’d aim to cover (no more than 500 words), to <a href="mailto:anne.fox@clinks.org">anne.fox@clinks.org</a> marked “Monument Fellowship question” by 31st January 2019. The deadline for contributions is early May 2019.Clinks and National Criminal Justice Arts Alliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929479597573634879noreply@blogger.com348tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-5855742468397168992019-01-17T08:43:00.002-08:002019-01-17T08:46:40.428-08:00Building a less violent society from community grassroots - Anne Fox, ClinksClinks is a proud member of the Monument Fellowship –founded to carry on the legacy of the Monument Trust in criminal justice when the trust closes. Working together the Fellowship’s members aim to engage a broad range of people on issues which require real thought if we’re to reduce the number of people going, and returning, to prison. We’ve chosen to do this by setting an annual question which we invite people to answer in a variety of ways including through contributions to a book, curated by a different Fellowship member each year.<br /><br />I write this blog as this year’s curators The Centre for Justice Innovation prepare to launch the book answering the question “How can we be a less violent society?” An answer I’d offer to this question is “by allowing voluntary organisations, especially those which are community based and specialist in focus to flourish”.<br /><br />I say this reflecting on three things:<br /><br /><ol><li>Evidence from US research</li><li>Clinks’ belief in sector</li><li>What we know about state of the sector and its challenges</li></ol><br />In the United States of America Sharkey et al published research in 2017 that showed, tracking crime rates over a 20 year period, a positive correlation between the development and presence of non-profit organisations in local communities and the reduction in their violent crime rates.<br /><br />The research points to the positive influence of informal social control in local communities where supportive organisations focussed on the wellbeing and safety of people in that community are present. “Drawing on a panel of 264 cities spanning more than 20 years, we estimate that every 10 additional organizations focusing on crime and community life in a city with 100,000 residents leads to a 9 percent reduction in the murder rate, a 6 percent reduction in the violent crime rate, and a 4 percent reduction in the property crime rate”. <a href="http://justiceinnovation.org/building-less-violent-society-community-grassroots/#_ftn1">[1]</a><br /><br />This is something we’ve an instinctive belief in at Clinks because we understand, usually from qualitative sources of evidence, the impact that charities and social enterprises have on the lives of the people they support and the communities in which they live. The criminal justice system disproportionately impacts the lives of people in poorer communities and people protected under the Equalities Act (2010). This is true both for victims of crime and those who find themselves on the other side of the dock. Organisations in the sector are often of and for these communities of place or interest. As such they have specialist understanding of their communities’ needs and appropriate responses to them. For example, 25% support women, 24% support young adults and 16% work to meet the needs of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people.<br /><br />Starkey’s research reinforces our belief that given the freedom and flexibility to design and deliver responses to need as they see fit these organisations can achieve remarkable outcomes that lead to inspirational change. But it brings into sharp relief some of the challenges facing the sector at this time because the very things that they need to do to support their communities and the people in them are under threat, primarily due to lack of funding.<br /><br />We’ve published our latest <a href="https://www.clinks.org/publication/state-sector-2018">State of the sector research</a>. In our analysis we’ve found a continuing pattern of the smallest and more specialist organisations facing real uncertainty. This throws into question their future ability to survive and thrive and provide the support that’s needed in their communities.<br /><br />The English and Welsh voluntary sector is predominantly locally based with 47% of organisations delivering their services locally, compared to 35% regionally and 35% nationally.<br /><br />English and Welsh criminal justice voluntary sector organisations are smaller than those in the wider voluntary sector. 25% of specialist criminal justice organisations have an income of less than £100k, compared to 12% of non-specialist criminal justice organisations; whilst 26% of specialist criminal justice organisations have an income of more than £1m, compared to 35% non-specialist criminal justice organisations.<br /><br />Sources of funding are also important and impact on what organisations can do and how they work. Voluntary income, including grants, is essential for small, specialist criminal justice organisations to respond flexibly and innovatively to local need.<br /><br />Our work shows that the smaller the organisation, the more likely they are to rely on voluntary income such as from charitable trusts and foundations, than from the government. In 2015/16 specialist criminal justice organisations with an income of between 100k and 500k received 33% of their income from voluntary sources such as Trusts and Foundations and and 23% from government; whilst those with an income between £1m and £10m received 12% of their income from the voluntary sector and 60% from the government. This income tends to take the form of grants rather than contracts, with specialist criminal justice organisations receiving 67% of their total income in the form of grants…<br /><br />We believe that grants are good. They allow organisations to be flexible and responsive. Whereas contracts for services are often prescribed by commissioners rather than developed by organisations who have the intelligence and expertise to identify, understand and address needs in their communities.<br /><br />So, what are the implications? What trends require concerted effort to reverse if we’re to ensure that the needs of communities in England and Wales are well met, which may in turn lead to the same reductions in crime, seen in Sharkey et al’s research?<br /><br />We need to allow and enable communities of place and interest to mobilise and support the formation, development and sustainability of not for profit organisations responding to communities’ needs – the US experience points to the importance of organisations forming following the mobilisation of local people concerned about their community in the face of rising crime and violence. Action of this kind creates empowered and autonomous communities which in turn leads to the social capital that is most likely to produce the positive influence of informal social control that is described in the research.<br /><br />We need to understand that real change takes time – funding and support of one to three years for projects and initiatives will go some way towards supporting local organisations but transformative longer-term change and building the trust needed to achieve it will need longer term investment.<br /><br />We need a radically different approach to ensuring that BAME led organisations, possibly the most vulnerable part of our sector at this time, can lead responses to need within BAME communities. Clinks research has shown that, despite sustained and ongoing over representation of, and poorer outcomes for, BAME people at every stage of the criminal justice system, BAME led organisations are more likely to be at risk of closure than other organisations in the criminal justice system. Alongside this, BAME people, especially young BAME people, are also more likely to be victims of crime including violent crime. These issues merit a community response from a well-funded and autonomous BAME led sector able to advocate for and put resource into ways of building trusted relationships with and services for young people. Yet while the vulnerability of this part of the voluntary sector has been recognised by infrastructure organisations, funders and policy makers it’s this type of organisation that we consistently see missing out on funding because they can’t fit the criteria for funding and commissioning precisely because they’re small and specialist. We need concerted action that sees funders handing back power to these communities, supporting and resourcing them to define their own needs and solutions in order to develop an autonomous and sustainable BAME led sector.<br /><br />Overall we need to invest in grassroots solutions, developed and owned by the communities they seek to serve.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://justiceinnovation.org/building-less-violent-society-community-grassroots/#_ftnref1">[1]</a> <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122417736289">Sharkey, J (et al) “Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime” in American Sociological Review 2017, Vol. 82(6) 1214–1240</a>Clinks and National Criminal Justice Arts Alliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929479597573634879noreply@blogger.com170tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-39270738108608127892018-09-13T05:38:00.001-07:002018-09-13T05:41:24.926-07:00How can art create a less violent society?<span id="goog_806656102"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_806656103"></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fsnGKXiBvDI/W5pZx6VFHEI/AAAAAAAAABc/FFgThWzx-20RD4DmdCwO0MN4YN8dbx0pgCLcBGAs/s1600/LoveMeToDeath2_courtesyofIntermissionTheatre-1024x683.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="133" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fsnGKXiBvDI/W5pZx6VFHEI/AAAAAAAAABc/FFgThWzx-20RD4DmdCwO0MN4YN8dbx0pgCLcBGAs/s200/LoveMeToDeath2_courtesyofIntermissionTheatre-1024x683.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.intermissionyouththeatre.co.uk/">Intermission Youth Theatre</a></td></tr></tbody></table><i>In what ways does art contribute to violence in society?&nbsp;</i><i>In what ways does it prevent it?</i><br /><i>Does art in the criminal justice system contribute to creating a less violent society, or can it do it harm?</i><br /><b><br /></b><b>This year, as part of The Monument Trust Fellowship, the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance's annual Anne Peaker lecture will focus on art and violence.</b><br /><b><br /></b><a href="https://www.artsincriminaljustice.org.uk/event/how-can-art-create-a-less-violent-society/">The event</a>, at the National Theatre in London on Friday 5th October, will be chaired by Alison Frater with a panel debate from a variety of contributors including academics and artists. Speakers include:<br /><ul><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rebecca Friel, Director,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.oddarts.co.uk/">Odd Arts</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.chairmankato.co.uk/">Chairman Kato</a>, Artist and activist</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Keith Palmer, Director,&nbsp;<a href="https://thecomedyschool.com/">The Comedy School</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://craigpinkney.com/">Craig Pinkey</a>, Urban Youth Specialist and Lecturer, University College Birmingham</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Michael Smith, Performer,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.synergytheatreproject.co.uk/">Synergy Theatre Project</a></li></ul><div>Synergy Theatre Project will also be performing their new play <i>Blackout</i>&nbsp;on the theme of youth violence.</div><div><br /></div><div>The event will run from 6pm- 8pm with networking drinks until 9pm. Spaces are extremely limited so please book in advance.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://www.artsincriminaljustice.org.uk/event/how-can-art-create-a-less-violent-society/">Click here to join us</a></b><br /><br /></div>Clinks and National Criminal Justice Arts Alliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929479597573634879noreply@blogger.com118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-70850837664226314252018-07-31T03:20:00.000-07:002018-07-31T03:20:16.720-07:00New film from the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/272594935?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="533"></iframe> <br /><b><br /></b><b>The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) is pleased to announce the release of&nbsp;<a href="https://vimeo.com/272594935"><i>Why do arts in criminal justice matter?</i></a></b><br /><br />The film features responses from sector leaders and supporters - including members of the Monument Fellowship - and shares inspirational accounts of NCJAA members’ work; making a compelling case for arts in criminal justice.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"What access to the arts can do is to show you a set of possibilities to how you can live your life differently, and how you can make a really meaningful contribution to society."</i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">– Darren Henley OBE, Chief Executive, Arts Council England</blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"If you believe that everybody should be given a second chance – and should not be judged by the worst thing they have ever done – then it’s important that criminal justice can use the arts to change the way people think about offenders."</i>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">– Sally Taylor, Chief Executive, Koestler Trust</blockquote><br />This film was produced as a resource for NCJAA members, please use and share it as much as possible with funders, governors and stakeholders. Watch it above or <a href="https://vimeo.com/272594935">click here to watch it full-screen.</a><br /><br />If you have any questions about the film please contact <a href="mailto:dora.dixon@clinks.org">dora.dixon@clinks.org</a>Clinks and National Criminal Justice Arts Alliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929479597573634879noreply@blogger.com213tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-70853369325503541642018-07-19T05:32:00.000-07:002018-07-19T05:32:03.340-07:00Khulisa presents at The International Conference on the Prevention of Radicalisation of Young PeopleAs part of our role in the 7 country-wide Youth Empowerment and Innovation Project (<a href="http://yeip.org/about-the-project/">YEIP</a>) our Research and Programme Coordinator, Iman Haji, recently delivered a presentation at the first <a href="http://yeip.org/20012018-international-conference-in-italy/">International Conference on The Prevention of Radicalisation of Young People</a> at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X8waSSEZaFQ/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X8waSSEZaFQ?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>This international conference marked the launch of the first output of the project, “<a href="http://yeip.org/download/697">Young, Marginalised But Not Radicalised: A Comparative Study of Positive Approaches to Youth Radicalisation</a>” a book comprising of seven chapters written in the native languages of the researchers (English, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Romanian) which summarises the key findings from all participating countries. It brought together young people, policy makers, practitioners, politicians and academics from across the EU together to discuss the concept of youth radicalisation, it’s different meanings and forms across Europe as well as potential means of preventing and reducing this phenomenon.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-frqT9xYx6Ec/W1CDpCVczaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SPzdQYdfMIsqqitCpsHf-tzSxjzVUVPmgCLcBGAs/s1600/YEIP.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="770" height="171" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-frqT9xYx6Ec/W1CDpCVczaI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SPzdQYdfMIsqqitCpsHf-tzSxjzVUVPmgCLcBGAs/s320/YEIP.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3bUY71gS9hQ/W1CDqt6QbtI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/xivYcu7ydrUVzbQQky3VTzaZLCg_QaBcACLcBGAs/s1600/YEIP2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="771" height="170" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3bUY71gS9hQ/W1CDqt6QbtI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/xivYcu7ydrUVzbQQky3VTzaZLCg_QaBcACLcBGAs/s320/YEIP2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Our paper and it’s accompanying presentation shared the methodology behind Khulisa’s programmes, what we have learnt in the last 10 years and how our strengths-based approach to working with young people may be an effective model to prevent and reduce radicalisation and social exclusion.<br /><br />You can view our presentation in the first 15 mins of the video above.<br /></div>Cara Cinnamonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954647293505414459noreply@blogger.com444tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-43477068789353729252018-07-05T00:26:00.004-07:002018-07-05T00:26:55.967-07:00Tuning Up: Britten Sinfonia performing with 30 prisoners and staff at HMP Whitemoor<h2 style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WeSWzEPC7FU/Wz3H_dsZAmI/AAAAAAAAAQY/aVqJp-mVa_crm0hZQf4NXBfPyg3DZd0GwCLcBGAs/s1600/100018A5whitemoor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="214" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WeSWzEPC7FU/Wz3H_dsZAmI/AAAAAAAAAQY/aVqJp-mVa_crm0hZQf4NXBfPyg3DZd0GwCLcBGAs/s1600/100018A5whitemoor.jpg" /></a></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">In&nbsp; March 2018 Britten Sinfonia, one of the UK's leading musical ensembles, played a concert at the Apex, Bury St Edmunds, directed by acclaimed concert pianist Jeremy Denk which included George Gershwin's famous composition,&nbsp;</span><em style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rhapsody in Blue</em><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">, with all its soaring joy and impassioned yearning and its jazz and classical references and inflections. In June 2018 a film of this concert was shown to prisoners at HMP Whitemoor, one of the most secure prisons in the UK where many of the 400 men resident there are serving sentences of 20 years or more.&nbsp; HMP Whitemoor has an enlightened Governor, imaginative leaders, committed staff ready to solve problems and make good things happen, and, not surprisingly given all that, a good reputation with prison inspectors and others.&nbsp;</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Showing this film of the concert to the men came out of discussions that had started in 2015 between Orchestras Live, a creative producer which works to ensure that communities all over the country have access to world class orchestral experiences, and Lemos&amp;Crane, which has a long history of supporting and promoting innovative work in prisons, particularly long-term prisons.&nbsp; Our shared goal, with the determined, well-connected and knowledgeable Jan Ford of Orchestras Live, was to encourage large and well-established orchestras and ensembles to become involved in projects in prisons.&nbsp; There had been one or two projects involving orchestras including the Halle and the Royal Philharmonic, but broadly speaking the involvement of orchestras in the vast majority of prisons has been minimal or non-existent.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">There are plenty of small scale musical projects in prison, but there are special benefits of working with orchestras.&nbsp; Prisoners experience the classical repertoire. They will also hear the music of, and perhaps play with, world class musicians. Orchestral music also requires collaboration and working together in a highly structured and disciplined way.&nbsp; All that put together, we believed, could have a transformational impact on the lives of a long-term prisoner otherwise susceptible to boredom, alienation, demotivation and depression, particularly if, as a result, of working and playing with an orchestra, they might feel enthused to learn a musical instrument themselves, bringing the benefits of application, practice, discipline, creativity and achievement.&nbsp; Our ambitions did not end with bringing music to the centre of prisoners' lives. We also wanted the residents of the prison to enjoy the tension, excitement and rewards of live performance.&nbsp;&nbsp; An additional important objective was we hoped to involve prison staff fully in the project, including as musicians.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">We were delighted when Craig Nethercott, Phil Bramham, Jeannette Bramham and the Governor of HMP Whitemoor, Will Styles, committed to working with us and Britten Sinfonia, their 'local' orchestra.&nbsp; Both the orchestra and the prison are in the east of England near Cambridge.&nbsp; We knew that the high security aspects of HMP Whitemoor would create logistical and security difficulties, imagine bringing a double bass through prison security! But we felt strongly that the benefits of working with the orchestra would be most powerfully felt by prisoners on long sentences who may very well feel demotivated and depressed, but who could also commit for a long period to bringing music into their lives in a deeper and richer way, which would hopefully be more rewarding.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">So the project was conceived with a strong sense of structure and purpose and some clear desired outcomes, which in the context of a high security establishment were bound to be complex and challenging to achieve, but nothing venture, nothing win.&nbsp; In essence, we wanted the project to have a profound beneficial effect on prisoners' wellbeing and we hoped to inculcate a love of listening and playing all kinds of music, especially orchestral music.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">The project was led and facilitated by Jason Rowland, a multi-talented music leader and composer and an inspiration and motivator to others. Additionally, there were six Britten Sinfonia musicians working with the men, in smaller groups and for the performance.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Paul Archibald - trumpet</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">John K Miles - saxophone</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Alan Gibson - electric bass</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Dawn Hardwick - piano</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Oliver Pashley - clarinet</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Matthew Gunner - French horn</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Following the showing of the film the men were asked by the dynamic and energetic Britten Sinfonia team, Sarah Rennix and Megan de Garis, whether they would be interested in becoming involved in an ongoing music project culminating in a performance for their mates in the prison and some invited guests in three weeks' time.&nbsp; Thirty men expressed an interest and committed to getting involved.&nbsp; As it was a large group, for the purposes of the six music workshops, they worked in two groups with three musicians in each group. In the workshop, taking Rhapsody in Blue as inspiration, they composed a piece of music through improvisation and workshop-ing which was notated at the end of session. There were only three dropouts, two for reasons of ill health and one because of behavioural issues.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">So finally the day for the performance arrived, 25 or so external visitors arrived on a warm June afternoon and, having got through security, came into one of the prison's large workshops where the orchestra were set up at one end, complete with lights, amplifiers, mikes, speakers and recording equipment (safely delivered through the complexities of a high security prison) and about 80 seats had been put out for the audience.&nbsp; The men and the staff who were rehearsing with the Britten Sinfonia musicians during the morning all took their places, perhaps nervous and apprehensive about live performance as anyone would be, and the atmosphere grew that there was a full orchestra on stage.&nbsp; Refreshments were served by the prison's peer supporters, a very friendly and helpful lot in distinctive tee shirts and the other prisoners started to arrive.&nbsp; Eventually about 60 prisoners were in the audience and milling about with refreshments and visitors.&nbsp; One of the musicians commented he looked out from behind his instrument and saw a scene of an expectant audience chatting and laughing before the musical proceedings began, like any other concert hall in the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Then the band struck up! First, Britten Sinfonia musicians played a lively, loud rendition of&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I Got Rhythm</em>, then the rest of the band, the prisoners and the staff, joined them on stage.&nbsp; The four pieces they had composed in the workshops were strung together by Jason in 40 minutes of utterly compelling, original music, a fusion of jazz, reggae, rap and classical music. The performance was recorded and will be available on podcast and will also be played at a Britten Sinfonia concert in the future, fulfilling our goal to musically connect these long term prisoners in a high security prison, possibly destined to stay in prison for decades with the general public who know nothing of them, but will experience a little of their musical life and hear something of their musical achievement.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">The world premiere performance of these new compositions brought the house down that day in HMP Whitemoor. The men in the audience loved it, cheering and whooping, especially when prisoners and staff played and sang alongside one another in duets. The visitors were moved, surprised and delighted about witnessing such musical joy in the potentially austere setting of a high security jail. The atmosphere was electric and the room full of goodwill and enthusiastic support for the commitment and achievement of prisoners, staff and musicians.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">More refreshments afterwards and many expressions of regret from other men that they too had not participated.&nbsp; The Governor, who had played in the band for the entire concert, commented to me immediately, "We must do this again." &nbsp;</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“That was an absolutely fantastic afternoon. The atmosphere in the hall was pure, living and breathing Rehabilitative Culture. Everywhere I have been today prisoners (even some of our more difficult to engage men) have been asking me when we are going to do it again, and whether or not we can start our own orchestra, band, rap crew and singing groups. It’s all had an utterly brilliant impact around the site. It is one of those rare awesome days I will always remember.</em>” &nbsp;Will Styles, Governor, HMP Whitemoor</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div>Gerard Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04720533746033622367noreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-70665688476493627752018-06-05T03:13:00.000-07:002018-06-05T03:13:23.523-07:00Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 MONDAY 2 JULY 2018 10AM – 5.30PM, CAMBRIDGE LAW FACULTY<br /><br />The law and practice of parole is in transition. Recent judicial decisions and the Government’s review into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole decisions are likely to lead to profound changes. This timely conference will focus on these recent developments and aims to enrich the responses to the Government’s current consultation. The consultation is open until 28 July.<br /><br />Experts in parole, public law and the Chief Executive of the Parole Board will lead sessions at the Conference, with a panel of respondents. Each session will include time for questions and comments from the audience. Other confirmed panellists include Phillippa Kaufmann QC and Dr Jackie Craissati. The conference will be of interest to academics, legal practitioners, Parole Board members and everyone interested in the future of parole.<br /><br />Delegate fee: £30 (to cover administrative costs and refreshments)<br /><br />Book here&nbsp;https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-law/parole-law-policy-and-practice-in-2018/parole-law-policy-and-practice-in-2018Gerard Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04720533746033622367noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-86571813315483523222018-05-21T01:12:00.000-07:002018-05-21T01:12:42.477-07:00<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aHQSR1mhwgY/WwJ9TR1yeoI/AAAAAAAAAQM/RJiImlJwkcckvEdGhaYo9Nfufmea-VQgACEwYBhgL/s1600/9781898001775.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="422" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aHQSR1mhwgY/WwJ9TR1yeoI/AAAAAAAAAQM/RJiImlJwkcckvEdGhaYo9Nfufmea-VQgACEwYBhgL/s320/9781898001775.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;'Life Beyond Crime: What do those at risk of offending, prisoners and ex-offenders need to learn?' </strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">was the collection of the responses to the first annual Monument Fellowship question.&nbsp; There were more than 60 contributions from serving prisoners, ex-offenders, artists, academics and many criminal justice practitioners.&nbsp; We wanted to hear about their experiences as contributors.&nbsp; Some of these are given below.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br /></span></strong></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">Comments from contributors</span></strong></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I have found the essays in&nbsp;the book fascinating, inspiring and provocative. I hope to meet more&nbsp;&nbsp;of the contributors in the future.”&nbsp;</span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tom Millest, Parole Board</strong></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">“The book launch … made me feel proud that my experiences might go on to help others feel a little better in some way and your efforts to do the same warm me"&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gareth Evans, Cambridge University Institute of Criminology</strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">“The book a fantastic achievement, an important resource for anyone interested in making the prison system safer, more humane and ultimately more effective in promoting better outcomes for its many&nbsp;“stakeholders”&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tom Pauk, prison visitor</strong></strong></strong></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">“It was lovely to be in a room of such inspirational people. It is such things which power me to do the best I possibly can for the people we work with.”&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clare O’Sullivan, HMP Frankland</strong></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">“I found the atmosphere and discussion provocative and emotional, so thank you so much for involving me, I feel very privileged to have play a small part.”&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Corin Morgan-Armstrong, HMP Parc</strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">“It was a real honour to be a part of the book launch, and great to meet both yourself and Gerard as well as hear more about the work of the Monument Trust. I haven’t yet managed to read all of the contributions, but of those I have read there were many that moved me. I also found the open discussion during the launch very affecting; I think it’s so important to be addressing these themes… from my experience, the prison environment is severely lacking in emotional intelligence/understanding/awareness, and the more we can discuss crime and punishment within this context the better.”&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ella Whittlestone, HMP Peterborough</strong></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I thought the event was great and I have already started to promote the book to our postgrad students. Whilst I am still ploughing my way through the contributions, what is immediately clear is that the voices of contributors retain a sense of optimism and authenticity, despite the obvious challenges facing HMPS.” &nbsp;</span><strong style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul Hamilton, Nottingham Trent University</strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">“I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and am finding the book so interesting. What a privilege to be part of such a great project.”&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ruth McFarlane, Open University</strong></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: yellow;">“It was&nbsp;a great event and the book is brilliant, we need more books like this as it shows how many different prospective there are on this subject.”&nbsp;<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shirl Tanner, Sussex Pathways</strong></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div>Gerard Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04720533746033622367noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-51635309482182534182018-05-18T06:21:00.003-07:002018-05-18T06:21:55.283-07:00Can you answer our question for 2018?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &amp;quot; font-size: 21.33px;">The Monument Fellowship</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &amp;quot; font-size: 21.33px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &amp;quot; font-size: 21.33px;">The Question for 2017-2018<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: &amp;quot; font-size: 29.33px;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot; font-size: 21.33px;">"How can we be a less violent society?"<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><i style="font-size: 13.53px; line-height: 20.29px; position: static; width: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: &amp;quot; font-size: 29.33px;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><h2 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: Georgia,Utopia,&amp;quot; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 28.8px; margin-right: 28.8px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-size: 13.33px;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;">#lessviolentsociety<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-size: 13.33px;"><span style="font-family: &amp;quot;"><a href="http://themonumentfellowship.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #77aaff; text-decoration: none;">http://themonumentfellowship.blogspot.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &amp;quot; font-size: 13.33px;">Centre for Justice Innovation, Clinks, Diagrama UK, Khulisa UK, Koestler Trust,<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &amp;quot; font-size: 13.33px;">Lemos&amp;Crane, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance, Restorative Solutions</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #ffcc77; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.29px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: #ffcc77; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.53px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="1600" height="62" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bS-L9CfPhmU/WgQz7kWy3iI/AAAAAAAAADI/Q2iFD3IsPmsb0eyHVDw-kCskI8SVDquegCLcBGAs/s320/monument.gif" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.5); padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="320" /></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><br />Please be in touch with your ideas. Would you like to set them out in a piece for our second Monument Fellowship book? Please be in touch at themonumentfellowship@gmail.com<br /><br />The Monument Fellowshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177035202994621287noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-45119900776596070292017-11-07T09:16:00.001-08:002017-11-09T02:57:58.566-08:00Life Beyond Crime - The Fellowhip is One Year Old: We answer our first year's Question<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" src="https://www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/resources/9781898001775.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="225" /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;">Life Beyond Crime</span></em></strong><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;brings together in an insightful and passionate debate, through prose, poems and pictures the assembled first-hand experience and wisdom of more than 60 contributors responding to the question <em>What do those at risk of offending, prisoners and ex-offenders need to learn</em>?</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">Contributors include current and former prisoners including the work of artists and poets who have been recognised by Koestler awards; criminal justice practitioners; educators and academics; as well writers from the voluntary and arts worlds including theatre director Phyllida Lloyd, lyricist Sir Richard Stilgoe and sculptor Sir Antony Gormley.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">Learning and understanding are discussed in their widest sense, covering not just formal learning and learning skills, but also - and most importantly - learning about yourself, your past and future identity, your family life and your aspirations and role in society.&nbsp; These types of understanding are explored in the contexts of diversion from crime, young people, adults in prison, and returning to the community.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For more details:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><a href="https://www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/home/news?bid=237912"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/home/news?bid=237912</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Go to the Koestler Trust Shop to get your copy at £15: </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://www.koestlertrust.org.uk/shop/books/life-beyond-crime/"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.koestlertrust.org.uk/shop/books/life-beyond-crime/</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span>&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong><em></em></strong></span>&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong><em>And, moving on to 2018 ....</em></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span>&nbsp;</div><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &quot;castellar&quot; , serif; font-size: 16pt;">The Monument Fellowship</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &quot;castellar&quot; , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &quot;ms pmincho&quot; , serif; font-size: 16pt;">The Question for 2017-2018<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: &quot;ms pmincho&quot; , serif; font-size: 22pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;castellar&quot; , serif; font-size: 16pt;">"How can we be a less violent society?"<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: &quot;castellar&quot; , serif; font-size: 22pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b><br /><br /><h2 style="margin: 0cm 21.6pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;cambria&quot;;">#lessviolentsociety<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;cambria&quot;;"><a href="http://themonumentfellowship.blogspot.co.uk/">http://themonumentfellowship.blogspot.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &quot;cambria&quot; , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Centre for Justice Innovation, Clinks, Diagrama UK, Khulisa UK, Koestler Trust,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #993300; font-family: &quot;cambria&quot; , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lemos&amp;Crane, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance, Restorative Solutions</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="1600" height="62" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bS-L9CfPhmU/WgQz7kWy3iI/AAAAAAAAADI/Q2iFD3IsPmsb0eyHVDw-kCskI8SVDquegCLcBGAs/s320/monument.gif" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</div>The Monument Fellowshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177035202994621287noreply@blogger.com173tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-51050520506512297622017-04-25T04:29:00.000-07:002017-04-25T04:29:41.394-07:00What do prisoners and ex-offenders need to learn?Every year, the members of the Monument Fellowship will ask themselves a question and work towards answering it, through the work of each organisation and in working together.<br /><br />The Monument Trust is also asking all its friends, including present and past grant-holders too, to offer their answers too. In autumn 2017, we will set out the thinking and ideas that emerge at an event, and issue a publication. Please send us 600-1000 words with your thoughts, knowledge, experience and achievements. (for 2018 we will focus on another question.)<br /><br /><b>What do prisoners and ex-offenders need to learn?</b><br /><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Please write to <a href="mailto:themonumentfellowship@gmail.com">themonumentfellowship@gmail.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br />The Monument Fellowshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177035202994621287noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-92104196075297602922016-10-20T04:04:00.000-07:002017-11-09T03:18:36.860-08:00<br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">On 17 October 2016 The Monument Trust Fellowship and its inaugural publication 'Working Together To Improve Criminal Justice' were launched at an event attended by over 50 people and hosted by The Koestler Trust's annual exhibition of art 'We Are All Human'.</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mark Woodruff of The Monument Trust explained the Trust's work and its impact in criminal justice as well as the thinking behind creating an enduring legacy for Simon Sainsbury's aspirations. The Trust wanted to invite 8 organisations (that it had worked with for many years) to form a Fellowship to pursue their particular approaches in concert for the next 5 to 6 years in the hope that they will achieve a momentum and lasting influence greater than the sum of the parts. The Monument Trust believes that their distinctive approaches add up to a comprehensive response to the offender's journey through chances for diversion and taking opportunities for personal change, towards desistance from offending and rehabilitation in society.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chief Executive of the Koestler Trust, Sally Taylor talked to Mick and Linda about their journeys from offending and imprisonment. They told their inspiring stories of how they overcame the different challenges they faced.</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gerard Lemos, partner at Lemos&amp;Crane and author of 'The Good Prison'</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">announced an inaugural question for 2017: 'What Do Prisoners and Ex-Offenders Need to Learn?', responses to which would be gathered from the Fellowship organisations and far beyond, reflecting The Monument Trust's belief that the Fellowship is not exclusive and makes no claim to have all the answers.</span></div><br /><div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to the staff and governing members of the Fellowship organisations - Centre for Justice Innovation, Clinks, Diagrama Foundation, Khulisa, Koestler Trust, Lemos&amp;Crane, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance and Restorative Solutions - the following organisations were among the well-wishers represented at the event: Geese Theatre, Clean Break, British Board of Film Classification, Leap Confronting Conflict, John Lyons Charity, Changing Paths Charitable Trust, Retired Greyhound Trust, Ministry of Justice, MEAM, Arts at the Old Fire Station, Caritas Westminster, Agenda, Sir John Cass Foundation, Rise Mutual, Catch 22, the Sieff Foundation, Orchestras Live, West London Mission, and Third Sector.</span></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />The Monument Fellowshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177035202994621287noreply@blogger.com51United Kingdom37.09024 -95.712891000000013-36.4162205 99.052733999999987 90 69.521483999999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-68496909353545395182016-10-18T08:09:00.003-07:002016-10-18T08:12:00.749-07:00Working Together to Improve Criminal Justice: The Monument ManifestoLast night at the 2016 Koestler Exhibition at the South Bank Centre,&nbsp;we launched our common manifesto for the Fellowship taking forward the objectives of The Monument Trust as it concludes its fifty year history of grant-making.<br /><br />We did not wish merely to end our work without leaving something behind that might have a chance of gaining momentum and have a positive and lasting effect into the future. So we&nbsp;set in place a six-year funded Fellowship, working around each of the steps of the Journey of an Offender. Our Fellowship is a concerted effort between:<br /><br />- <a href="http://justiceinnovation.org/" target="_blank">Centre for Justice Innovation</a><br />- <a href="http://www.clinks.org/" target="_blank">Clinks</a><br />- <a href="http://www.diagramafoundation.org.uk/" target="_blank">Diagrama Foundation UK</a><br />- <a href="http://www.khulisa.co.uk/" target="_blank">Khulisa UK</a><br />- <a href="https://www.koestlertrust.org.uk/" target="_blank">Koestler Trust</a><br />- <a href="http://www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lemos&amp;Crane: The Good Prison</a><br />- <a href="https://www.artsincriminaljustice.org.uk/" target="_blank">National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance</a><br />- <a href="http://www.restorativesolutions.org.uk/" target="_blank">Restorative Solutions CIC</a><br /><br />and of course The Monument Trust and any who wish to ally with us and support the work.<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2eJhW6qxA--RTdFZ2x6YTlxdlU/view?usp=sharing">Download Working Together to Improve Criminal Justice</a> <br /><br />Each year, we will work round a theme together, answering a question that we will seek answers for across the Fellowship and from all out friends and networks. We will translate this into practice and at the end of twelve months, we will gather the answers and the thinking up into a publication, or an event.<br /><br />Our question for the next year is: <strong>What do prisoners and ex-offenders need to learn? </strong>Please visit the sites of any of the Fellowship members to give your answer.<br /><strong></strong><br />The Monument Fellowshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177035202994621287noreply@blogger.com248tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485226978148187757.post-60940461294822646402016-10-14T07:07:00.000-07:002016-10-14T08:06:30.585-07:00The Monument Fellowship: After 50 Years of Grants in Criminal JusticeThe Monument Trust’s long-held objective has been to keep young people out of prison, and to ensure that those who offend and are sent to prison never go back.<br /><br />At the end of its work, to take forward&nbsp;its fifty years of work, the Trust has brought together a group of organisations to collaborate as a Fellowship for several years on each stage of the journey an offender experiences in the criminal justice system - from prevention and diversion, encounter with the police and arrest, through prosecution and sentencing in court, in prison and young offender institution, and in the community&nbsp;after release.<br /><br />We are:<br />• Centre for Justice Innovation<br />• Clinks<br />• Diagrama Foundation<br />• Khulisa<br />• Koestler Trust<br />• Lemos and Crane - The Good Prison<br />• National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance<br />• Restorative Solutions<br />and The Monument Trust<br /><br />We invite all our friends and colleagues in other organisations and networks who share our values and ideals to join us as our work together develops and emerges. <br /><br />We do not so much wish to leave a legacy behind, but set on course a concerted movement that will go beyond our work as a Foundation after it reaches its end.<br /><br />Our Fellowship's manifesto - <em>Working Together to Improve Criminal Justice</em> - will be presented on Monday 17th October.<br /><br /><em>Mark Woodruff, The Monument Trust</em>The Monument Fellowshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177035202994621287noreply@blogger.comLondon, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777